High school substitute teacher arrested following accusations of sexual relationship with student

Trevor Jack Trathen was arrested for allegedly having a sexual relationship with his student. (SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT.)

A high school substitute teacher in California was arrested for engaging in an inappropriate relationship with a female student.

Trevor Jack Trathen was taken into custody on Saturday after school officials contacted the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Yucaipa Station to report the alleged tryst.

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Detectives, along with the Sheriff's Specialized Investigations Division, launched an investigation and gathered enough information to arrested the 26-year-old former educator, CBS Los Angeles reports.

Investigators believe Trathen had a sexual relationship with the minor in February and March of 2014 while he was a coach at Yucaipa High School.

Trathen was working at the school as a substitute teacher at the time of his arrest, the outlet reports. School officials said he's since been removed from the district's system.

Details surrounding the alleged incident have not been revealed, but Trathen faces charges for oral copulation with a minor 14 years of age and penetration with a foreign object on a 14-year-old.

He's being held at the Sheriff's Central Detention Center on a $200,000 bail.